I saw it with my own eyes from inside the White House.

Alongside prosecutors and investigative journalists, we spent months uncovering the welfare system that Minnesota, President Joe Biden, Gov. Tim Walz, and Rep. Ilhan Omar built: a system designed to cut checks and ask no questions.

Money up front, receipts later. Or never.

That’s why President Donald Trump declared a “War on Fraud” in his State of the Union. Now, some states are considering the unthinkable—purposefully replicating a key factor in the Minnesota fraud nightmare, under the guise of “efficiency.” Governors and legislators need to kill this so-called “One Door” welfare policy. Right now.

“One Door” is an attempt to “streamline” welfare enrollment by using one integrated eligibility and enrollment process for all programs. The only thing “One Door” makes more efficient is enrolling as many people as possible onto welfare and making the safety net more vulnerable to errors and fraud.

It’s not “One Door”—it’s “Open Door,” and it throws open the border to welfare programs, letting anyone in. It is the exact opposite of what the public is demanding right now.

Since 2018, 14 high-risk Medicaid programs in Minnesota alone cost taxpayers more than $18 billion. The U.S. Attorney for the........

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